This requires a sweet spot of dorkitude over Star Wars to appreciate. If you don't care sufficiently, it's way too much minutia wankery. If you care too much, you will probably find this heresy.

But if you're like me, you'll be all WHY COULDN'T WE HAVE GOTTEN THIS MOVIE INSTEAD?!!?!

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This came up in discussion with someone tonight, so I thought I'd share with you. I found it reasonably mindblowing.

The fashion industry has approximately no intellectual property law protection. Yet it confounds by its great artistic and commercial success most of the arguments for the necessity of IP law.

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I'm procrastinating. There's a wall of hot, moist air four blocks thick between me and my laundry.

coilhouse has turned me on to the timelapse nature videos of Terje Sørgjerd. Of the most recent one, "The Arctic Light", he writes: My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of, even after talking to meteorologists and astrophysicists I am none the wiser. What I am talking about I have decided to call The Arctic Light and it is a ( Read more... )

In lieu of real content, some preëminent prestidigitation, via coilhouse:

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Via coilhouse: The 2011 Oscar winner for Best Animated Short. Exquisite.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

"The Lost Thing" by Shaun Tan from kareandr on Vimeo.
ETA: All gone. :( Any idea what the legitimate way to get the Oscar candidate shorts is ( Read more... )

As a girl who grew up in the 70s and 80s playing keys, and never got to play with the cool electronic toys (man, that stuff was expensive), this makes me ridiculously happy in a giddy nostalgic feminist historically-informed-performance sort of way ( Read more... )

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I post this with the at least two ukelele students on my flist in mind. Jake Shimabukuro's astonishing rendering of "Bohemian Rapsody":

Periodically, someone will ask me if I am planning on getting a PhD, and then ask me why not.

This is the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZaLipDgFZQ

(I am one of those psychotherapists with master's degrees mentioned ( Read more... )